11-17-25 Afternoon Rush - Baldoni Releases New Video Footage But Does It Backfire? & Trump Says Release Epstein Files!
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Podcast Description — Afternoon Episode
• 🔥 New Blake Lively footage drops — fans are celebrating, but does the viral clip tell the whole story? We break down what's real, what's missing, and why the internet might be jumping the gun.
• 🗂️ Trump reverses course on the Epstein files — now urging Congress to vote for full release. Is this transparency… or strategy? We dig into his motivation, timing, and the political fallout.
• ⚔️ Marjorie Taylor Greene under attack — from Trump calling her a traitor to escalating threats against her. We unpack how this GOP civil war got here — and where it's heading.
• 🎙️ Plus: today's top headlines, political power plays, and the cultural stories you'll be talking about tonight.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:14.0 | Good afternoon, everybody. On this Monday, November 17th, 2025, I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride home. And on today's episode, |
| 0:22.8 | we'll do a deep dive on Blake Live Live vs. Justin Baldoni. A new video has emerged that was |
| 0:29.1 | produced by Boldoni's side that is now being used against him, but is it much ado about nothing? |
| 0:36.2 | I'm going to dive into that on our first story. |
| 0:39.1 | Plus, there's a content creator who was accused of taking money from Ryan Reynolds side because |
| 0:44.5 | he disappeared. Well, he's back and he says he has information that is insane. We're going to |
| 0:51.1 | start to break down this story. It could be a very busy week for Baldoni. |
| 0:54.9 | Back half of the episode, we'll cover Marjorie Taylor Green, her breakup from Trump and MAGA, |
| 1:00.9 | and why Trump is now saying he wants them to release the Epstein files. I mean, what are we talking about? |
| 1:07.9 | All these stories and more starts right now on the rush. So we are going to |
| 1:11.6 | dive into this clip right here that I'm sharing with you from a guy named Be Better. He is a |
| 1:18.1 | content creator who sort of went away, but now he's saying that Blake lively and Ryan Reynolds |
| 1:22.1 | are participating in something dark. I'm going to share this in a minute, but first, let's go to the big story of the day, |
| 1:29.7 | which is Justin Baldoni, joking on a set. Sorry, I missed the sexual harassment training. |
| 1:36.9 | I'm going to play this clip for you. I'm going to dive into what the Baldoni haters are saying about it, |
| 1:43.0 | and then I'm going to share what the Baldoni supporters are saying about it and then i'm going to share what the baldoni |
| 1:44.9 | supporters are saying i'll show you where i lean on this and before i even share the clip with you |
| 1:51.3 | you know like most things in life i like to sort of remind everybody we don't have full context |
| 1:58.3 | no matter how we look at something and uh well who was it einstein who said when the chain when we changed the way we look at no matter how we look at something. And what was it? Einstein who said |
| 2:02.1 | when we change the way we look at things, the way we look at things changes. And it's all about |
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